Regarding CPD

I became ACCA member in the year of 2019 and as I knew the first year that I should have started with CPD is the following – 2020 . I can find the following on the ACCA site:
Who completes CPD?
All ACCA members active in the workplace should complete CPD on an annual basis. If you’re a new member then you must begin recording your CPD from 1 January after you become a member. You don’t have to complete CPD if you’re on our retired register.

I am not in a public practice, so I am qualifying for a waiver. Should I fill the waiver form for this year, or from the next one?

Thank you a lot OpenTuition!

Hello! I am wondering, when you claim CPD by reading and understanding technical articles: do you claim 2 CPD units of which 1 is verifiable by the certificate and argue that you learned for 2 hours?

Or should I claim 1 CPD unit which is completely verifiable for 1 technical article, do this for 21 technical articles and then simply claim 19 non-verifiable CPD units?

Thanks for your advice,

Martin

Thank you for the info! I will look for Adam Deller’s articles. Would you recommend tracking the unverifiable CPD as well, describing specific articles etc.? Or can I generally claim 19 CPDs for books I read for my projects at work etc.?

Hello,

does anyone know if taking an additional professional exam while being a member counts towards CPD and how many units would that be?

I passed optional exams for APM and AFM, I would be interested to take ATX if this would grant me CPD for the whole year.

Thank you
Arminas

@kamgmo – see here https://www.accaglobal.com/hk/en/member/cpd/your-guide-to-cpd/plan-do-review/do.html – “additional qualifications” is one of the many activities that can contribute to CPD.

Thanks Kangmo,

did they give any guidance on how many verifiable units could one claim for passing an additional professional exam?

Inherently it takes many hours to prepare for prof. exam for the pass, but this can not be verified if self-studied
When I was preparing for SBL just practice kit with 5 mock/past exams alone adds up to 86 hours, on top of that there is study text and technical articles

My point is prof exam requires way more than 100 hours, but since I’m not working in tax role at the moment would it still count as verifiable CDP? If so, one exam would be enough for two years CDP and I would definitely consider this option even though there is a rather significant cost involved, as well as the risk of failing exam itself

Or this would simply count as additional qualification even though it doesn’t really elevate your ACCA qualification?

Interesting they do not have this as a separate section on their CPD site.

I know it’s a long post but other people might find this relevant too, would you be able to share what contact did you use to reach out to ACCA, I could follow up with them myself?

Thanks

thank you Kim for clarifying!

I’m aware that taking professional exam is much more difficult (and more expensive) route to CPD than, for instance, reading articles with the test or attending seminars, nonetheless it’s good to know this is an option

Happy holidays to all!

@LJ123 – Welcome to OpenTuition!

Revision of what you’re supposed to know already by virtue of passing exams is not CPD. But say, for example, you sat APM and AAA and you’re interested in topics of AFM that are relevant to your work – you could study those topics and claim CPD.

Merely downloading notes is not verifiable (although I always document anything that I have “on file” in support of non-verifiable CPD).

ACCA has its own excellent resources for obtaining verifiable CPD – you can download certificates of completion to support each unit claimed – as well as save the related resource
https://www.accaglobal.com/sg/en/member/cpd-landing.html

You can see here “Recently aqdded CPD activities” – those that have verifiable units have a * (star) – read the article – pass the associated MCQs – and you can claim a certificate. All articles are free. Some webinars are also free.

And see this post also https://opentuition.com/topic/need-verifiable-cpd-for-2022-15-units-of-free-cpd-on-offer-from-acca

@arjubagale – Welcome to my forum. As per my earlier post (above), most questions are now answered in ACCA’s “Your Guide to CPD” https://www.accaglobal.com/lk/en/member/cpd/your-guide-to-cpd.html

As you have quoted for the section under “Who completes CPD?”

“All ACCA members active in the workplace should complete CPD on an annual basis. If you’re a NEW MEMBER then you must begin recording your CPD from 1 January AFTER you become a member.”

So no – you don’t have to declare CPD – the “It’s time to declare” email is just a standard one that went out on 13th to advertise some courses.

I became a ACCA affiliate on Oct 2019. I have 35 months of experience with one of the B4. I am currently unemployed and have decided to take a career brake. I would like to know if I need to complete CPD as an affiliate

Hello. Does on the job training for a new IT reporting system count as verifiable CPD.

Thanks you.

Hi Kim,

I let my unverified CPD fall by the wayside this year. Fortunately I’m on track for verifiable. I’m a little confused about how to break down my activities during work as unverifiable CPD. For example, if I spent many hours working on a complex provision in my job, can I claim it as say 5 units if it was about 5 hours of work?

Thank you in advance.